It was indeed a bit out of the ordinary, I wanted to do a big out and return, then jump on the sea breeze convergence coming from Sydney as the thermals died and do some big distance down past Canberra and back. It'd already started falling apart around Bathurst but I found a bit of a storm outflow convergence that got me over to the sea breeze convergence, which was unfortunately much weaker than I was expecting. I believe it was actually as strong as it looked, just not at the altitude I was comfortable running it over the Blue Mountains. I turned back short of Goulburn for 1000k instead as the convergence was blueing out.
Bathurst is an odd site. 9 days out of 10 we're the last to start in NSW by an hour, but every so often we seem to get away a good two hours before the plains. I think that makes three 1000's, two in standard and one in 18m. 1037k, by me, http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo. html?flightId=1813867559 1031k, by Ian De Ferranti, http://www.onlinecontest.org/ olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=-934063183 There's some photos of the seabreeze convergence on my FB: https://www.facebook.com/MatthewScuttersGliding/posts/1285626598195585 As well as a debrief and a clip of a landspout(?) on my page too. On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 2, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Jim Staniforth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Nice one Matthew. > Seems a bit out of the ordinary... How many thousands have been done out > of Bathurst? > > > At least one! :-) > > - mark > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > >
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